DIFFERENTIALLY SIMPLE RINGS WITH NO INVERTIBLE DERIVATIVES
DIFFERENTIALLY SIMPLE RINGS WITH NO INVERTIBLE DERIVATIVES
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DOI:
10.1093/qmath/32.4.417
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发表时间:
1981-12
影响因子:
0.7
通讯作者:
D. Jordan
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作者:
D. Jordan
LET R be a commutative Noetherian Q-algebra with a non-zero derivation d such that R is d-simple, that is the only ideals of R invariant under d are 0 and R. It is well-known, see for example [2], p. 43, that the ring of differential polynomials R [x, d] is a simple Noetherian ring. KR Goodearl [4] has asked whether there has to be an element r of R such that d (r) is invertible. The aim of this note is to show that if K is a field of characteristic zero and n 5» 2 then the polynomial ring R=^[* ii X2,•••,* n] admits a K-derivation d such that R is d-simple and d (R) contains no units.The motivation behind Goodearl's question, apart from the observation that in all the best known examples of d-simple rings there occur invertible derivatives, is a feeling that the simple ring R [x, d] arising from a d-simple ring R with no invertible derivatives might possess significantly different properties from those of the known simple rings of differential polynomials. One distinction which can be drawn between such an example R [x, d] and, say, the Weyl algebra At (C) is that the former admits an outer derivation whereas it is known, see [3], p. 148, that the latter does not. Any ring R [x, d] of differential polynomials admits the derivation dldx of formal differentiation and this derivation is inner if and only if there exists reR such that d (r)= l. The derivation d of K [xlt x2,..., Xn] for which we show that K [xu* 2»•••>* n]^ d-simple is not the first such d to be constructed. J. Archer [1] has shown that, provided K is a field of characteristic zero, K [xu x2,..., XB] is 6-simple where